My life on earth & elsewhere - Schafer, R. Murray 1933-2021 (Porcupine's Quill, 2012)
Paralleltitel: My life on earth and elsewhere
Part One Student, sailor, wanderer. Beginnings -- Artist or musician? -- Europe -- Behind the Iron Curtain -- The 1960s -- The soundscape --
Part Two The music of the environment. Monteagle Valley -- Patria -- Indian River -- The 1990s : Canada and the world -- A new millennium -- Postlude
Music is central to many of R. Murray Schafer's memories. Schafer recounts childhood summers spent in Manitoba lassoing gophers (and being paid two cents a head for them) and a music education marked by his cheerful but total resistance to the conventional instruction that was available. This title presents his story